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Category: Books (Language Arts &Amp; Disciplines)
Author: Chapman, S.
Author: Chapman, S.
ISBN-10: 0230524761
ISBN-10: 0230524761
ISBN-13: 9780230524767
ISBN-13: 9780230524767
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Mar-2008
Pub Date: 01-Mar-2008
SKU: 0230524761-11-SPRI
SKU: 0230524761-11-SPRI
Item ID: 100817298
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The author offers a new assessment of the influence of the Vienna Circle on language study, and considers its relevance to the debate in present-day linguistics about the relative merits of 'intuitive' and 'real life' sources of data.Introduction The Vienna Circle Falsification and the Scientific Method Holism Ordinary Language Philosophy Speech Acts and Implicatures Oslo Philosophy Interpretation and Preciseness Empiricism in Linguistics Bibliography Index

Chapman provides a fascinating linguistic and philosophical account of the history of empiricism in the study of language from the Vienna Circle in the early 20th century to the present... Linguists will gain from Chapman's rigorous discussion of the philosopical underpinnings of linguistic theory amd methods... Highly recommended. - CHOICE

SIOBHAN CHAPMAN is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has previously taught at the Universities of Newcastle and Kent. Her publications include Philosophy for Linguistics; Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist; Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language and Thinking About Language.